{"id":90031,"date":"2025-11-17T07:23:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90031"},"modified":"2025-11-17T07:23:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:23:56","slug":"generational-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90031","title":{"rendered":"Generational Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>I saw this graph over the weekend &#8211; and it&#8217;s gotten me thinking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There&#39;s a lot of truth to this. Wherever we have data, we see this repeated:<br><br>Communists tend to be downwardly mobile. They are, always and everywhere, disproportionately likely to be their generation&#39;s losers.<br><br>Consider this Finnish data on the Red and White Guards: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oJ57aK5oiK\">https:\/\/t.co\/oJ57aK5oiK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gKSy5n9SJB\">pic.twitter.com\/gKSy5n9SJB<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Cr\u00e9mieux (@cremieuxrecueil) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cremieuxrecueil\/status\/1989091398214381913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 13, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It shows how children in Finland during the Finnish Civil War who became communists and socialists tended to see themselves as, or be, less successful than their fathers, both in occupational and educational terms.  In this data set, the pattern became clearer the higher up the educational and occupational scales one went. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having observed a lot of socialists and other dyspeptic leftists in my time, I don&#8217;t think the pattern has changed much in the past 100 years (see: \u00a0Woody Kane).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the problem.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gen Z&#8221; sees itself, statistically, as uniquely burdened by economics, frequently seeing that as the &#8220;legacy&#8221; of previous generations leaving them nothing. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And this particular failure has many fathers; yes, the educational system that taught them to embrace victimhood; their Millennial siblings and aunts and uncles who set the example of building identities around one&#8217;s maladies. \u00a0And, to be honest, yes &#8211; an economy that is currently top-loaded with workers from a couple of very large generations, and a list of other confounding factors &#8211; tax rates, zoning laws, the advances in technology that are disrupting traditional job markets &#8211; that give the Zoomers some difficulties of their own. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; does the &#8220;socialist loser son&#8221; metaphor apply to an entire generation?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s going to take some un-doing. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Socialists are usually children of wealth who feel cheated out of their on success.  So &#8211; what if we have an entire generation like that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,68,51,374,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-liberal-tyranny","category-social-justice","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90032,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90031\/revisions\/90032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}